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The Time of Their Lives (1946) was a Comedy - Fantasy Film directed by Charles Barton .

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The Time of Their Lives: Bud and Lou Every Night at My House

By FlickChick on Nov 10, 2024 From A Person in the Dark

This is my entry in the Classic Movie Blog Association's A Haunting Blogathon: In the Afterlife. For more eerily delicious articles, please visit here.Bud and Lou on opposite sides of the revolution in 1946's "The Time of Their Lives."My Father: How many times can you watch the same film?9 year old ... Read full article


Abbott and Costello's The Time of Their Lives

By Rick29 on Feb 14, 2022 From Classic Film & TV Cafe

Bud and Lou in one of their few scenes together.One of Abbott and Costello's most atypical films ranks among their best. The Time of Their Lives (1946) is one of only two of the pair's movies in which they don't perform as a team. The previous year's Little Giant is the other non-comedy team picture... Read full article


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Quotes from The Time of Their Lives

Horatio Prim: [he and Melody collide and are wearing each other's clothes] Odds bodkins, we're all mixed up!
[they run into each other again and get back into their own clothes]
Horatio Prim: Melody, don't ever do that again, I'm a boy!


Melody Allen: This is the first pleasure I've had in 165 years.


Telephone operator: [Horatio picks up the phone receiver] Number please.
Horatio Prim: Spooks!
[runs over to Melody]
Horatio Prim: That thing just talked to me!


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Facts about The Time of Their Lives

This would be the first Bud Abbott and Lou Costello feature directed by Charles Barton, who is generally regarded as their best director.
The cost of the special effects made this the most expensive Bud Abbott and Lou Costello feature up to that time.
Three weeks into shooting, Lou Costello demanded that his role be switched with Bud Abbott's. When director Charles Barton explained that this was unreasonable, Costello walked off the set. The cast and crew frantically worked around him for the next two weeks, when Costello slipped back onto the set and completed the film. He never apologized or explained his behavior.
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